eightfold
Speech parts
1. eightfold - Adjective
2. eightfold - Adverb
3. eightfold - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Eight times a quantity.
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By the late 1950s, the Wiccan Bricket Wood Coven and Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids had both adopted eightfold ritual calendars, for balance and more frequent celebrations.
According to the National Safety Council, “the rise in cellphone-distracted walking injuries parallels the eightfold increase in cellphone use in the last 15 years.”
But if everyone in developing countries used the same amount of energy as the average consumer in high income countries does, the developing world's energy use would increase more than eightfold between 2000 and 2050.
Around the same time Robert Ammann created a set of aperiodic tiles that produced eightfold symmetry.
The Buddha taught the eightfold path in virtually all his discourses, and his directions are as clear and practical to his followers today as they were when he first gave them.
The eightfold multiplicity of gluons is labeled by a combination of color and anticolor charge (e.g. red–antigreen).